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Well, as a commenter above points out, Ben didn't "tell TechCrunch", but posted a comment here. It would be far more reasonable to, after seeing a comment by X
by RBerenguel 10y ago
Well, as a commenter above points out, Ben didn't "tell TechCrunch", but posted a comment here. It would be far more reasonable to, after seeing a comment by X here addressing important topic Y, the news outlet contacted X about Y, and wrote something about that exchange. Not just copying the comment and making it look as some exchange.
- tekacs 10y agoIt /was/ an exchange, between the folks the article mentions it was between. Completely agree with the sibling commenter and you about 'told TechCrunch'. Yours and the sibling comments most-all refer to this point, so just replying once to that - yes certainly misrepresentation is bad, but copy/pasting comments together from Hacker News need not be, as the grandparent poster suggested. Dismissing it as 'modern journalism' with the snide comment in the grandparent post was just lazy.